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Strategic Potato Farms

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The SPot Farm programme up-scales the research and demonstrates the on-farm implementation of the science from our £1.5m annual R&D investment in a commercial, field-scale environment.

Trials and demonstrations

We conduct trials and demonstrations across our national network of farms. Subjects include local issues, selected by the host farmer and their steering group, and national multi-site trials.

A recent example of a national trial was our desiccation work in 2019, where a fully replicated trial was held at six sites across Britain - four of these sites were SPot Farms, where growers and agronomists were able to track progress at open days and field walks.

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Once more SPot Scotland has shown you can vastly reduce nitrogen use without seeing any negative impact on yield or crop quality. In fact, we have seen better yields when less nitrogen has been applied.

Cultivation

Host farms

“Our decision to host a SPot Farm was born out of a quest for knowledge, we have several challenges that come in to our business and businesses in the area who have light soils.Holding a SPot farm here allowed us to look at best practice and innovation.”